Bait-carrying attachment for fishhooks



D. A. ORE.

BAIT CARRYING ATTACHMENT FOR FISHHOOKS.

APPLICATION FILED APR-25, 1919.

1 ,325,530. Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

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DAVID A. ORE, OF MOUNTAIN GROVE, MISSOURI.

BAIT-CARRYING ATTACHMENT FOR FISHHOOKS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

Application filed April 25, 1919. Serial No. 292,524.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID A. ORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mountain Grove, in the county of Wright, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvemel'its in Bait-Carrying Attachments for Fishhooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in fishing tackle and particularly to bait-carrying attachments for hooks.

One object of the present invention is to provide a novel and improved bait-carrying attachment for a fish-hook which will hold either live or artificial bait and which will hold the same oifeciively against being taken by the fish.

Another object is to provide a novel and improved attachment for a fish-hook for holding bait thereon, which: is constructed for ready attachment to or removal from any hook, whereby when a hook breaks the bait-carrying attachment will not be lost, or need to be thrown away, but can be detached and applied to a new hook.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying In the drawing:

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a fish hook having my improved bait-carrying attachment applied thereto. I

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the hook and attachment. I

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the baitcarrying attachment removed from the hook.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, 10 represents the shank of the fish-hook and 11 the eye in one end thereof, while 12 represents the barbed point of the hook in connection with which my invention is adapted for use.

The attachment is preferably formed from a single length of resilient wire and is bent to provide the leg portions 10' and 11' and they connecting bight portion 12". The outer end of the leg portion 10 is offset, as at 13 and rebent toward and parallel with the leg, in ofiset relation, as shown at 14, the extrem ity of this latter portion being bent or curved upwardly and over the adjacent portion of the leg, to provide a hook into which the pointed end of the other leg 11 is adapted to be sprung. The offset end of the leg 10 provides a loop or eye which is passed through the eye 11 of the fish-hook, so that the shoulder 15, formed by these ofi'set portions engages with the walls of the eye and prevents movement in either direction longitudinally of the shank of the book. When the eye of the attachment is so disposed in the eye of the hook, the pointed leg is passed under the shank of the hook to the other side thereof, whereby one leg Will be disposed on one side of the shank and the other leg on the other side, with the bight portion engaging the hack of the shank. The resiliency of the wire thus will hold the device in proper position on the hook so that When the pointed leg is disengaged from the hookshaped keeper 14; the attachment will remain in firm engagement with the shank.

By disengaging the leg 11 from the keeper 14:, and swinging said leg around behind the shank the offset eye may be readily disengaged from the eye of the hook, thus rendering it easy to quickly remove the attachment from the hook. The device may I as readily be applied to the hook, thus obviating the loss of the attachment should the hook break. Furthermore, the device is adapted to be manufactured and sold as an article of manufacture to be applied by the fisherman to any of his hooks, thus rendering the use of the device more general, and obviating the purchase of specially constructed or designed hooks.

lVhat is claimed is:

1. The combination with a fish hook having an eye, of a bait carrying means associated dctachably with the hook and comprising a piece of resilient wire formed with an ofiset eye portion at one end engaged through the eye of the hook and arranged for the attachment of a line, said eye portion being formed with a keeper, the wire being formed into an elongated loop and having its other end extending toward the eye portion and engaged with the said keeper.

2. A bait holder for a fish hook formed from a length of spring wire and including an elongated loop, one end of the loop being Q I e 1,325,530

formed with an offset eye portion and a the bight portion of the loop engaged with hook-shaped keeper for the reception and the Back of the shank. 1o retention of the other end of the loop, said I In testimony whereof, I aflix my signaofiset eye portion being arranged for enture in the presence of two witnesses.

5 gagement throughthe eye of the hook and DAVID A. ORE. I

receiving one end of a line therethrough, the Witnesses: end portions of the loop being disposed on Mrs. C. E. ROOKSTOOL,

opposite sides of the shenk of the hook and MAE WHETSTIN'E. 

